Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Stars of earth, these golden flowers; emblems of our own great resurrection; emblems of the bright and better land.

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If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen.

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As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me.

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Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.

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Thinking the deed, and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need.

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Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart, and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love's behest Far excelleth all the rest!

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Some feelings are quite untranslatable; no language has yet been found for them. They gleam upon us beautifully through the dim twilight of fancy, and yet when we bring them close to us, and hold them up to the light of reason, lose their beauty all at once, as glow worms which gleam with such a spiritual light in the shadows of evening, when brought in where the candles are lighted, are found to be only worms like so many others.

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In the long run men hit only what they aim at.

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I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.

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Autumn arrives like a warrior with the stain of blood upon his brazen mail. His crimson scarf is rent. His scarlet banner drips with gore. His step is like a flail upon the threshing floor.

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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

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At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast.

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Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.

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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

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The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.

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Let the dead Past bury its dead!

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Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

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